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Title: Chambers&Apos;S Papers for the People
Description: London, William and Robert Chambers, 1850. First edition. Leather. Containing volumes I and II of the scarce periodical 'Chambers's Paper for the People.' Volumes I and II of the scarce periodical published by the Chambers brothers between 1850 and 1856. William and Robert Chambers were Scottish publishers and authors, both popular and influential in mid-19th-century scientific and political circles. They are mainly known for their extensive work 'Chambers's Encyclopaedia.' Containing sixteen articles and essays, each with unique pagination. Volume I: The Bonaparte Family; The Sepulchres of Etruria; Valerie Duclos; Education of the Citizen; The Myth; The Sunken Rock; Popular Cultivation of Music; Ebenezer Elliot.Volume II: The Sanitary Movement; Washington and His Contemporaries; Edmund Atherton; Memorabilia of the Seventeenth Century in Britain; Ruined Cities of Central America; The Ivory Mine; Secret Societies of Modern Europe; Francis Jeffrey. Rebound in half calf over marbled boards, titles in gilt to morocco spine label. Externally sound with some shelf wear, rubbed and lightly scuffed to extremities of boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Odd light spotting to occasional leaf, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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